On Tuesday, 28th June Corporals Callum Tearney and Alan Klimczak were presented with their BTEC
Level 2 in Teamwork and Personal Development in the Community
certificates.

These awards are available to all cadets over the
age of 16 at no cost to the individual concerned and are an
internationally recognised qualification which are generally considered
equivalent to 4 GCSEs at A* to C grade.

Friday, 17 June 2016

With help from the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust, we have recently
purchased a replacement minibus for 361 squadron and today collected the
vehicle following the application of the graphics and Air Cadet
branding which make it stand out from the crowd.

(In case you
are wondering, the aircraft on the side of a minibus is a Lockheed
Martin F35B Lightning II which will be the next generation of fighter
flown by both the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm.)

The minibus will
be used for a wide range of activities, including Duke of Edinburgh
Award expeditions, Adventure Training, visits to places of interest,
transporting cadets to Wing competitions and much, much more.

This weekend, for example, a group of cadets will be travelling in the
minibus for Shotgun Clay Pigeon Shooting which is a sport which is
becoming increasingly popular within the Air Cadet Organisation.

On Wednesday, 15th June three cadets from 361 (Gateshead) Squadron
travelled to RAF Leeming for Air Experience Flying in Grob Tutor T1
aircraft belonging to No. 11 Air Experience Flight.

Although the
weather was a little murky all three cadets learnt about flying circuits
of the airfield and experienced multiple touch and goes on the Leeming
runway and their pilot was no less than the Station Commander of RAF
Leeming, Group Captain David Bradshaw MA BSC RAF.

Pictured are
Cadets Megan Hillier, Alex Mos and Mikolay Kulik in front of the new RAF
Leeming Gate Guardian, a Tornado F3 which until recently was the
mainstay of RAF Air Defence (but now replaced by the Typhoon).

Last weekend, cadets from 361 (Gateshead) Squadron were involved in a series of events held in Newcastle and Gateshead celebrating the 90th birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth II.On Saturday Cadets attended a concert at Newcastle City Hall which celebrated in music and dance the decades of the Queens reign whilst on Sunday a parade was held in the Gateshead Millennium Bridge (the Blinking Eye) which involved the Navy, Army and all three of the Cadet Forces as well as many other organisations from the Tyne and Wear area.Click here to see the television coverage of these events which were broadcast by the Made in Tyne and Wear TV channel.